Ignoring ampersand characters

[Andy Coleman]

Hi,

I am trying to pasrse an XML message fed from another system. It is
not forming the XML correctly and is modifying '&' characters in the
text. So when it has text such as 'this&that' it does not generate
'this&that' but leaves it as 'this&that'.

I have asked the people who generate the xml message to change their
software to work correctly but is there a way I can get around this in
the meantime.

I am using xerces SAX parser version 2.6.2

Thanks for the help.

Andy

[Richard Tobin]

In article <97**************************@posting.google.com >,
Andy Coleman <ju**@andy-coleman.co.uk> wrote:

I have asked the people who generate the xml message to change their
software to work correctly but is there a way I can get around this in
the meantime.

Not from inside the XML code. But you could run it through something
first to convert the ampersands. On a unix system

sed 's/&/\&amp;/g'

will do it.

-- Richard

[Andy Coleman]

ri*****@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote in message news:<cj***********@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>...

In article <97**************************@posting.google.com >,
Andy Coleman <ju**@andy-coleman.co.uk> wrote:

I have asked the people who generate the xml message to change their
software to work correctly but is there a way I can get around this in
the meantime.

Not from inside the XML code. But you could run it through something
first to convert the ampersands. On a unix system

sed 's/&/\&amp;/g'

will do it.

-- Richard

Thanks Richard, I had come to the same conclusion myself.

Andy